Corsair's Force SSD Reviewed: SF-1200 is Very Good
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 14, 2010 2:27 AM ESTFinal Words
Update: Random write performance of the drive we reviewed may change with future firmware updates. Click here to find out more.
Well, so much for the SF-1200 being a slouch. From the looks of it, I'd say that what you're looking at is a binned SF-1500 that performs well enough for most client use. Corsair's Force delivers the exact same performance as OCZ's Vertex LE, which also makes it your best bet if you're looking for a single drive that offers better-than-Intel performance. Unfortunately you do pay for it. If you look at how much you're paying per usable GB of space, these SandForce drives carry a ~33% price premium over Intel's X25-M G2.
The Corsair Force drive should be resilient enough to maintain good performance regardless of desktop workload. SandForce's unique architecture means that read performance actually suffers more than write performance over time, thankfully you'll never be in a situation where you'll need to read back LBAs that have garbage data in them so this shouldn't be a problem.
I really have no performance complaints about the SF-1200 or Corsair's Force drive. Both did very well in our tests. My concerns continue to be about long term reliability since we've only really seen these drives shipping in earnest for a couple of months now. If you're fine taking the risk, the performance is very nice. Otherwise I'd wait to see how these drives hold up over time before committing.
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Carleh - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
I don't want to be PIA, I've asked this before, but there was no reply, so, here it goes:Would it be possible to add some left and right margins to print page layout? I know it's meant to be printed, but I guess a lot of readers use it to read the whole article at once (me included), and it is slightly inconvenient to read without margins.
Thank you.
taltamir - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
interesting use of the print option.i haven't considered it before but i will definitely use it now...
problem with giving it margins is that it will not print correctly.
but it would be great if there was another option to display the article all at once with margins like the print command does.
taltamir - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
actually, you just need to NOT maximize, instead stretch to a comfortable size that doesn't touch the edge of the monitorvol7ron - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
That's wrong, CSS has the capability of having a few different stylesheets. Most notably, there is one for "screen" and one for "print", which would apply here. All AT has to do is create a margin for that page in the screen css and set that margin to 0 in the print css.deputc26 - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
Anand SSD reviews create deeper understanding than anything else I've found on the web, your investigative approach is awesome. Thanks!teohhanhui - Friday, April 16, 2010 - link
Try to read what the original poster has said. The discussion is about the print stylesheet.Visual - Thursday, November 18, 2010 - link
No, it is not. It is about the printer-friendly version of the page, which can still have both screen and print stylesheet as vol7ron suggested.Try to have a clue about web development before engaging in a conversation about it.
To the OP: you can use Greasemonkey or some equivalent (or even just make a javascript bookmarklet) and "fix" such minor things by yourself on any sites that you want.
donjuancarlos - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
Why not just change your settings in Page setup on the File menu to get the margins you want when you print an article?donjuancarlos - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
$#!7 ! Ignore that last comment.romansky - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
If you are using firefox, you can open Firebug and change the style of the DIV under the BODY tag to the following:Original: div style="width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"
To: div style="overflow: hidden; margin: 0px 40px;"
Should work :)